Last year’s posterIn spring 2018 I will go to Paris to make music on two occasions. June 1-2-3 is the Paris Spring Loops #2 festival. International performers from all over the world will gather to create music utilizing live looping techniques and a small side tour, stretching into Germany, is also planned. Myself, I will be using a Chapman Stick and a black floor-box containing my self-designed meta-instrument of interactive electronics. With these two tools I will make instrumental music based on the following criteria:

But I will also go to Paris already in mid-February for just a few concerts. The idea first came up when my beloved Charlotte Riessen was invited to display her visual art at Grand Palais, Salon Dessin. I have loved her art from the first painting I saw, experiencing each piece as a portal offering a look into a parallel world. And of course, the temptation to make myself a transponder for each world’s natural sound environment soon grew massive! So I suggested coming along to play music around the exhibition. The idea caught on well with the Swedish pavilion admin and I started to book other concerts in Paris for the rest of the week (gotta eat n sleep indoors, you know :-).

I will play at the Grand Palais, by the Swedish booth, on Thursday 15th at 15:00.

At Espace en Cours, on the 17th, experimentation is a keyword for the entire event. Several acts will perform during the night. Formally, it is a teaser for the upcoming Spring Loops #2 Festival, but I will attend as part of a collaborative installation with Charlotte Riessen. Her Dollhouse images and my live noise may breed or clash on stage and, hopefully, the audience will be led through many exciting portals that night.

At Église Suédoise, five o’clock on Sunday 18the February, there will be me, and my Chapman Stick, performing the church music program that has grown popular in Swedish summer church music programming.

I’m happy to be representing Sweden at the International Live Looping festival hosted by Italy’s big music product fair The Music Wall on Sept 18th 2016. I have streamlined my live electronics meta instrument for this concert and will be fronting it with a Chapman Stick, an Alto Traverse Flute and whatever noise the mic may pick up.

It feels very good being able to go and play this concert because lately I have been forced to turn down so many exciting requests for economic reasons. I used to struggle to remain an amateur musician so I would be free to lose money on travelling to play festivals that are amazingly cool but economically poor. However, today I’m a pro and forced to accept and adapt to the fact that I often make more money by simply playing out in public on my own back street. This negative side effect of professionalism does of course not include big and established festivals, like North Sea Jazz etc.

“Something has been missing in Stockholm’s progressive nightlife and I’m here to fix that! I want to start a meeting place to show the best underground scene acts that play Electronic Music live. It’s gonna be pure passion about electronic music performed on stage with great lights and big sound :-) If you love Big massive soundscapes, Tech-House, Deep House, Drum/Base/Techno:-) Come and enjoy my ride and just dance all night long…!!”

19:00 —> PER BOYSEN
Per Boysen has performed many shows around Asia, Europe and the US – both as a solo performer, in duets and with ensembles. Appearances in general public areas as well as at world famous institutions like the Swedish Norberg Festival, Présences Électronique in Paris and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. He is also active as a media music composer, having produced recordings in several surround sound formats, mixed records for bands and creative remixing for special record label releases.

With the Alto Flute and Chapman Stick in focus, Boysen performs simultaneously playing the self-designed electronic meta-instrument that allows instant found-sound cut-up, bringing the classic Musique Concrète methods into the digital era.

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“Among the many festival highlights was Swedish guitarist and flute/wood-wind player Per Boysen’s Jon Hassell-like soundscapes”
(Guitar Player Magazine, USA)

20:00 —> I AWAKE
Stockholm based ambient downtempo producer Thomas Huttenlocher aka I AWAKE follows up his digital Ep release [ Birth ] with a full length album [ The Core ]
Built as a journey of audio neural beauty through organic microcosms, electronic vortexes, deep, tribal beats and vast soundscapes, the album takes us on a pilgrimage of sounds, with scents of parallel lives, glimpses of the future and overlapping, coexisting dimensions.

A superfine blend of psychedelic spurs, groovy bass lines and catchy melodies composed with the collaboration of Krister Linder, Fredrik Lundberg, Tara Devi and Planet Boelex. As a film soundtrack producer, I AWAKE is one of the key figures of Ghostfriend, a Swedish underground movement of creators with a “peculiar devotion to the present and strong love for the innermost”.

For the first time in Ultimae’s history of releases, the artwork was created by famous digital artist and designer David Vineïs aka Sub88.

22:00 —> TECH-HEAD

Swedish House Music Producer . Drummer from Vasterås that moved to Stockholm 10 years ago. Into all kinds of music style’s; House, Deep House, Pop. Have released several trax on labels like: Waako, Blast records, PR Underground,Stockholm records

Teach-Head will be wrapping up this triple acts night with aggressive dance music, all performed live on stage.

Excerpt from a solo concert at Tynnered Kyrka, Sweden, on June 24 2015. First song “Gammal Fäbodspsalm” is an old traditional folk melody. Second song “Emerald” by Per Boysen is only featured here by the intro part because the camera stopped filming there…. Sorry about that, the full concert was some forty minutes.